A game where you stride around a cellar!
Cellar Strider runs on pure Python, using the curses module for drawing,
which is a wrapper for ncurses. This should come with Python. The sole
external dependency is PyYAML, used for loading map files. You can
install it automatically by running:
pip install PyYAML
or
easy_install PyYAML
...which may require sudo.
To play, simply run main.py. It will ask you to select a game, or "map pack".
Choose the tutorial to start with, so you can get a feeling for the controls,
but definitely check out the main game once you've finished it -- that's where
the action's at!
The game is completely keyboard-based. Use WASD to navigate the player.
Enter (or Return) is used to progress through most dialogs and messages.
Press i to open your inventory, select an item with W and S, then close
the inventory with Enter. To use the item, press Space while in the game.
For swords and keys, remember to be right next to the object when using it. For
swords, a good technique is to move towards the enemy, press Space, and then
immediate move away so they cannot retaliate.
A sample of the map format can be viewed in games/tutorial/tutorial.yaml. A
(much) more complex example is games/main-game/level02.yaml.